Kurtis Popp was sentenced today for his role in the Patrick Cudahy plant fire that began July 5, 2009.
The fire burned for days and caused more than $50 million in damage to the plant.
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
The second of two brothers who pleaded guilty to accidently starting the July 5th fire at the Patrick Cudahy meat packing plant was sentenced Monday to spend the next three Julys at the House of Corrections.
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Dennis Cimpl gave 25-year-old Kurtis Popp the same sentence he gave his 23-year-old brother, Joshua Popp: a suspended sentence and three years of probation. As a condition of their probation, the brothers must each perform 500 hours of community service and spend the next three months of July locked-up.
Both brothers pleaded guilty to being party to a crime of second-degree recklessly endangering safety, a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Police say former Marine Joshua Popp provided the military-grade flare, which Kurtis Popp launched as the two were celebrating the Fourth of July holiday.
..."What you are being sentenced for," Cimpl told Popp, "is being stupid."
Apparently, "being stupid," meaning causing a fire that "forced the evacuation of hundreds of Cudahy residents, idled most of the plant's 1,800 employees and caused well over $50 million in damage," doesn't carry a very tough punishment.
Kurtis and Joshua Popp received a very light slap on the wrist for what they did.
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